Adding insult to injury, residents on 4th Street in Harrisburg are returning to their homes, only to find out they've been burglarized and ransacked.
Two of the sinkholes opened up on Monday, December 31st in the 2100 block of North Fourth Street. And then after a third sinkhole opened on New Year's Day, residents living there were asked to move in with family or friends or accept lodging from the American Red Cross.
Resident Tiffany Murray and her family returned to their apartment Friday night to get more clothes. And less than a week later, on Wednesday, they went to move back in and found the back door kicked in. "They took TVs. They took computers. They took the kids' clothes they got for Christmas and just trashed up the third floor, turned my beds over."
Murray says she was assured by the Mayor at a neighborhood meeting last Friday evening that their properties would be protected. "Linda Thompson told us that there was gonna be officers patrolling this block. There wasn't no officers patrolling this block. If there were, our houses wouldn't have gotten broken into."
Murray says she knows of least five other homes that were broken into. She says, the neighborhood is not safe especially for kids and she's moving out.
Another neighbor said she woke up when she heard noise in her house. She went to her basement where she saw several people stealing copper wiring.
It is unknown exactly how many homes were victim to looting, and Police aren't releasing any information.
Two of the sinkholes opened up on Monday, December 31st in the 2100 block of North Fourth Street. And then after a third sinkhole opened on New Year's Day, residents living there were asked to move in with family or friends or accept lodging from the American Red Cross.
Resident Tiffany Murray and her family returned to their apartment Friday night to get more clothes. And less than a week later, on Wednesday, they went to move back in and found the back door kicked in. "They took TVs. They took computers. They took the kids' clothes they got for Christmas and just trashed up the third floor, turned my beds over."
Murray says she was assured by the Mayor at a neighborhood meeting last Friday evening that their properties would be protected. "Linda Thompson told us that there was gonna be officers patrolling this block. There wasn't no officers patrolling this block. If there were, our houses wouldn't have gotten broken into."
Murray says she knows of least five other homes that were broken into. She says, the neighborhood is not safe especially for kids and she's moving out.
Another neighbor said she woke up when she heard noise in her house. She went to her basement where she saw several people stealing copper wiring.
It is unknown exactly how many homes were victim to looting, and Police aren't releasing any information.